[LargeFormat] WWII signal Corp newsgroups

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eve Girard" <evegir@reachone.com>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] WWII signal Corp newsgroups


>
> As much as I hate to dispute Mr Knoppow over ANYTHING, I
do have to lodge a
> quibble over the Simmons Combat Camera.  Peter Lanczac is
always on the
> money with his research!  The Combat camera was a
focal-plane shuttered
> beast with no resemblance to the later Omega or Koni Omega
cameras that
> followed.   According to Peter, the Combat camera saw
service in the closing
> months of WWII.  It seems that this is very much "pre" any
"Omega"
> designators.
> Eve
   This rings a bit of a bell. I seem to remember another
camera similar to the Combat Graphic, perhaps buit to meet
the same spec. As someone else mentioned (I think) the
Combat Graphic was based on an earlier Graflex product
called the Ringside Graphic, made for photographing boxing
matches. It was essentially a bellowsless Speed Graphic.
   However, the Omega Camera was definitely a mid-1950s
product. It used 120 roll film and shot 9 pictures per roll
in what Omega called "Ideal Format" i.e., the same aspect
ratio as 4x5.

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@ix.netcom.com
>
> >
>
> >
> >
> > > Hi all
> > > I have a Koni Omega medium format camera here. I heard
it
> > was used and
> > > actually designed for either WW2 or the Korean war or
> > both. I found this
> > > link just now in the search engines.
> > > http://www.peterlanczak.de/koni_overview.htm
> > > Bye
> > > Bob
> > >
> >   The Omega camera was originally made by Simmon
Brothers
> > who make Omega enlargers. They came out in the mid to
late
> > 1950's. Possibly early enough to have been used in Korea
but
> > not during WW-2. I don't know when the design was
aquired by
> > Koni. The camera came out about the time that press
> > photographers were switching from 4x5 Speed Graphics to
> > smaller formats but it was never very popular.
> >
> > ---
> > Richard Knoppow
> > Los Angeles, CA, USA
> > dickburk@ix.netcom.com
> >
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